Laundry Update, thanks to you
A load of fresh laundry folded on our bed. ready for everyone to put away.
Ok, you all really came through with sharing your laundry schedules. I’ve taken a bunch of the advice to heart and have found a bit of a better rhythm for us. We have been doing a load or two of laundry every couple days. We try to get it folded that same day. We all help, with the folding and the putting away. Sometimes I just do the folding and sometimes Trevor does, but the kids always put away their own clothes. This means we are doing laundry more often but the one or two loads at a time feels more manageable than the build-up of 6+ loads on the weekend. During the week we are working, school, cooking, cleaning so one more chore doesn’t seem that awful. But spending a couple hours doing laundry on a Sunday is feeling awful.
I also looked at what we could fold less of. We are definitely not a Marie Kondo folding household. But I did reconsider that I fold our cloth napkins and now just pile them in the basket in the kitchen drawer. I also stopped folding underwear because it just gets tossed in a drawer anyway. But I couldn’t stop folding other clothes and that’s ok. If I know something will be hung on a hanger we just hang it up instead of folding first, which seems obvious when I write it out but once I’m in folding mode, I usually just fold everything!
Thanks for all your advice! I still love the idea of sending out laundry service and maybe will splurge on that one day.
I think it’s also important to remember that what we own can own us. That maintaining our home and our possessions is time and effort. So making sure that we only have clothes we need and love as we have to wash and dry and put away those clothes. Regularly editing our possessions, means less time caring for them. We still only have one set of fast drying towels, one set of sheets for each bed and currently we currently have too many clothes. I am going to focus on editing those back to a more manageable amount.
Oh and what are we listening to while doing laundry?
Here are my current podcasts:
Phone a Friend w/ Jessi Cruickshank
I Will Teach You To Be Rich w/ Ramit Sethi
Las Culturistas by Bowen Yang + Matt Rogers
Audio Books:
Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control By Katherine Morgan Schafler (from the library on my Libby App)
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good